Smooth Horn (CCC) Tobacco Pipe

Claudio Cavicchi is not only a renowned pipe maker but also a renowned pipe smoker, having won the Committee International of Pipe Smokers Clubs' slow smoking world championship in 1993 by keeping three grams of tobacco lit for just over three hours and nine minutes. Cavicchi only took up pipe making full-time after a 30-year farming career, turning his first pipe when he decided to make his own Oom Paul rather than continuing to wait for delivery of one he already ordered. Cavicchi pipes are known for their superior grain, with former Pipes and tobaccos magazine editor Chuck Stanion remarking that their titular maker "can read briar as though it were a printed page."

This Horn from Cavicchi is simple in its construction, as the generous arc of the underside of the stummel and rounded line between the top of the shank and aft of the bowl blur the line between bowl and shank. The bowl has a distinct forward cant ahead of a muscular stub of shank, and alternating cross grain and birdseye coat the walls alongside a smooth finish and handsome honey-blonde stain that matches the two expansion rings on the stem. The stem is otherwise composed of black acrylic, tapering back from the rings with a light bend back to the bit.